There must be a bug somewhere. I'm getting jumping battery meter syndrome.
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iOS 11 GM Battery
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This happened to my iPad Air 2 running the PB a few times. I would put it in a plane mode, plug it in, it would make a charging sound, sit there for a few hours and then stay at the same or slightly lower battery percentage. Does not seem to happen without the plane mode activated. I have had too many betas on it by now (since PB3), so will just do a clean restore once iOS 11 is out and see how it holds.
For iOS 11 battery life in general, so far it has been worse for me on iPhone SE & iPad Air 2. Not massively, but still noticeable to the point that I prefer to keep the phone in a low battery mode when I am out.
For me, the problem with 11's battery life isn't usage time, but standby time. If I used my SE straight off the charge and never put it down until the end of the day, I could get iOS 10 level battery usage time. But whenever I put the phone down for even like 2 hours, up to 5% would drain. I was on the firmware for a week, so it couldn't still be indexing, right?
The battery life is terrible even after 5 days of use. The standby time is especially terrible and I have to turn on Low Power mode to get back the pre iOS 11 battery life.
I don’t remember the same happened with iOS 10 GM. The springboard also crashes frequently.
I don’t remember the same happened with iOS 10 GM. The springboard also crashes frequently.
Yeah I agree that the battery isn't great, though I wouldn't say it was terrible. It's decent with Low Power Mode but when I turn that on it basically turns my SE into a 5s in terms of speed, which isn't very pleasant considering there's still a little bit of stutter present on iOS 11 GM without LPM turned on.
7+ here. Battery has been terrible after downloading iOS 11. Getting about 5 hours of use instead of the normal 7-8 I used to get of medium - heavy use.
There have been multiple springboard crashes in a day, about 4-5 times on my iPhone 7 Plus. Today the phone even rebooted itself (the home button became unresponsive i.e. no haptic feedback for about 10 seconds). I feel like I'm running the first one or two betas of the OS. I am afraid there were not enough testing or bug fixing on Apple's side. For the first time I don't recommend anyone to update to this 11.0 release at least on the iPhone. On the iPad the system is more stable. I don't know why.
Check your brightness. iOS update often "reset" the brightness, sometimes the system will have a new default etc. The brightness of the screen affect the battery life a lot (almost the single most relevant factor indeed). Keep it below 50%, of if possible, at about 25%, in my own experience, for your usage (mainly whatsapp, Safari, nothing high demand), should able to have 9-10 hours screen on time. And 20+ hours standby time.
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The remaining battery seems not real time updated. It's like fetch in irregular basis. e.g. It can keep at 100% for 90min, and then drop to 90% in 5min.
Try not to focus on the % but check if the actual usable time is normal.
e.g. For a phone less then 1yr, ~50% brightness, no high demanding apps. The battery should allow 8-10 hours on screen usage.
for a 1-3 year phone, should be around 6-8 hours.
for a 3 years+ phone, usually between 4-7 hours (very depends on battery health)
Wifi toggle only turns on by itself if your wifi networking ( inside the privacy settings) is off. Make sure you turn on privacy. The toggle is meant to recognise a network so u can easily connect or disconnect from it via the toggle. To keep a memory of a particular network, it needs wifi networking
I don't believe in the whole indexing thing. Not sure who made that up. But in my experience whenever I update the battery does act weird. 90% of the time the battery drains faster than usual and recalibrating the battery usually does the trick.
To recalibrate drain the battery to 0% and than charge it to 100%.
It is possible to require indexing indeed, just not always applicable. e.g. my wife’s 128GB 6s+ only has ~10GB empty space. But after update, it shows 110GB available. Obviously it takes time to index and shows the correct info again. And her phone has about ~20000 photos. Indexing really take some time and resources.
But my phone can shows the correct info right after update, no hot CPU, and I had pretty normal battery usage.
iOS 10 on my 6S Plus would be at 30% or so after a 13 hour shift and what for me is normal use. iOS 11 GM, same use, battery drains completely after 10-11 hours. Even watched it lose 1% every 2 seconds one day. If I just listen audiobooks or stream music / podcasts it’s not too bad. As soon as I actually do anything with the phone that involves the screen on the battery plummets. It lost 4% just typing this.
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This was at 43% when I posted that last reply. I’ve browsed the internet for about 10 minutes, sent a couple of messages, and checked Facebook for a minute or two.
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This was at 43% when I posted that last reply. I’ve browsed the internet for about 10 minutes, sent a couple of messages, and checked Facebook for a minute or two.